Top 1200 Great Grandpa Quotes & Sayings

I wish my grandpa could have seen me wrestle, even once.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.

My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.

My grandpa was a preacher.

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.

Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your grandpa," said Gregor. It seemed like the best and most important thing to say at the moment. "It's your grandpa." Luxa blinked. A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. The feelings won, and to Gregor's great relief, she ran into Vikus's arms.

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

Yes. I get scared sometimes if I don't know when a physical sensation is going to go away. For example, if I get a chest pain it's grandpa trying to say 'heart attack' and I verbalize 'grandpa had a heart attack' and the pain goes away. But there's sometimes that I'll verbalize and the pain is till there, and then it doesn't go away.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948.

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.

Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Disgusting. I just found my grandpa's Viagra. I swear, I almost puked from eating so many.

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.'

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'

"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'

As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.

The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!

My grandpa has always been the tech-savvy one of the family.

My grandpa and I, whenever we would go to Myrtle Beach, we couldn't wait to get there and have fried seafood.